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Political aspects of local goverment. Elections and electoral behavior of citizens in the town of Nový Bydžov
Bieliková, Eva ; Kopřiva, Radek (advisor) ; Lenka, Lenka (referee)
The thesis addresses the issue of elections and electoral behavior of citizens in the town of Nový Bydžov. It is focused on assessment of factors that influence voting behavior of citizens in the town of Nový Bydžov. It describes the evolution of electoral behavior from 1994 to 2014 and verification of the applicability of the theory of electoral behavior for explanation of the electoral decision-making of the electorate in Nový Bydžov. The theoretical part addresses (describes) theoretical definition of areas that relate to the topic of the thesis. The practical part is a case study of Nový Bydžov. Subject of study is the town of Nový Bydžov, objects of study are the voters participating in the elections to the council of this city. To achieve the set goals (objectives) is recovered content of documents study (written records), a questionnaire survey, comparative methods and synthesis.
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Local Elections and Formation of Self-Administration in Skopytce (Case Study)
Březinová, Andrea ; Čmejrek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Bubeníček, Václav (referee)
The Bachelor thesis on the topic of Local Elections and Formation of Self Administration captures the process of municipal elections and the post-election events in a selected village Skopytce. The thesis focuses primarily on municipal elections which took place in 2014. In the main part is an analysis of election results and voter turnout in 2014 and their comparison with the results of the elections in 2010. The thesis shows the problems of small communities with compiling lists of candidates, the post election cooperation between the elected representatives in relation to the establishment of self government. The thesis is trying to identify factors which influence the pre-election and post-election events in the village and tries to apply the classification of local models of democracy on the selected village.
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The Process of Setting Up the Local Government in the Municipality of Chodová Planá
Vonešová, Marie ; Čopík, Jan (advisor) ; Kobzev Kotásková, Sylvie (referee)
This thesis shows the creation of the local governments in the township Chodova Plana and the factors which influence the forming. The first part contains the theoretical information about municipalities, their organs, electoral system at the local level and local political systems. The second part describes the townhip Chodova Plana in terms of its history and the present, then it is introduced by individual indicators (social and economic characteristic, demographic structure, political characteristics). Further the thesis analyzes the results of local elections in electoral period 1998-2014, its comparasion and evaluation of functioning of the organs of local govrenments are made.
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The Development of Local Government in the Municipality of Nižbor
Votrubová, Veronika ; Čopík, Jan (advisor) ; Lenka, Lenka (referee)
The MA thesis aims to describe the development of local government in the municipality of Nižbor, which is located in the Central Bohemia Region near Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and the town of Beroun. The thesis includes a brief summary of the village´s history, its socioeconomic indicators and management, and also assessment of local elections focusing on the years 2006, 2010 and 2014.
The thesis also contains interviews with local councillors, at least one councillor from each list of candidates was selected. Some parts of the interviews were directly quoted, others were paraphrased.
The thesis also mentions political parties of the local political system, such as the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), political movement ANO 2011 (ANO 2011) and various associations of independent candidates.
The aim of the thesis is to describe the main socioeconomic indicators, to identify actors of the political process in the municipality of Nižbor and to define the character of the decision-making proces of its local government.
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The process of Setting Up the Local Government in the Municipality of Prestice
Alblová, Zdeňka ; Kubálek, Michal (advisor) ; Bubeníček, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on the local political processes in the town of Prestice. The case study elaborated will help to reveal the key factors and principles of the local authorities and their functioning and forming.
The bachelor thesis is divided into two main parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part discusses the commonly used terminology. Individual chapters deal with definition of the terms such as municipality and local authorities and their competences and powers. Other issues discussed are local democracy, local political subjects, electoral system in the Czech Republic and explanation of the associated terminology such as the candidate list, right to vote, political party, coalition or electoral formula.
The second part of the bachelor thesis practically analyses the situation in the town of Prestice. The history of the town and its economical and political development are described; geographic location of the town, its demographic composition of population and its main socio-economical indicators are introduced in this part. Particular data and their nature are compared to nationwide data, which provides the corresponding value for the classification of the town of Prestice within the Czech Republic.
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Party system of Říčany Town
Růžičková, Pavla ; Kopřiva, Radek (advisor) ; Lenka, Lenka (referee)
The thesis is focused on the research and analysis of the development of the local party system, particularly in Říčany, from 1994 to 2014. The aim of the thesis is to verify the applicability of theoretical foundations that operate at parliamentary level party systems. At the same time, the thesis analyses the election results, the characteristics of the political entities and identifying factors that party system operates.
The theoretical part deals with the bases of public administration, with detailed characteristic of municipalities, political parties and party systems, including distribution to the local level and civic participation. The analytical part consists of characteristics selected municipality, socio-economic and demographic indicators, describing the political entities, analysis of election results for the reporting period and the approach of political participation of citizen in Říčany.
In conclusion, an evaluation of the election period and the determination of the party system in conjunction with a comparison of theoretical knowledge.
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Agent-based models of cooperative games
Sedláček, Adam ; Burian, Jan (advisor) ; Dlouhý, Martin (referee)
The diploma thesis describes design and creation of agent-based model of cooperative games and its subsequent analysis. The created model combines assumptions of game the-ory with other findings; it examines the dynamics of coalition formation and the influence of external and internal factors on this formation. The first theoretical part introduces the game theory and clarifies basic principles and con-cepts of N - player cooperative games. It evaluates the benefits and disadvantages of solu-tions introduced by this theory. The thesis further deals with multi-agent systems focused on agent-based models as an analytical and computational method for analyzing complex systems. There are also explained basic principles of agent-based modeling, including ap-proaches of their creation. Furthermore, there are presented distinctions between different types of agents, environments and models. The second practical part specifies assumptions and principles that are essential for the created multi-agent model. The diploma thesis describes the development of agent-based model of cooperative games by itself, including its characteristics and behavior. Final analysis of the created model clarifies impact of individual variables on the coalition for-mation process and confirms its ability to investigate given area.
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An analysis of the results of Parliamentary Elections in the Czech Republic
Kopecká, Barbora ; Kalčevová, Jana (advisor) ; Kuncová, Martina (referee)
The election to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic took place in 2010. The theses focuses on examining of pre-election polls and election results themselves using some knowledge of game theory and public choice theory. The work describes in detail the methodology of processing election results as it works in the Czech Republic at present. Pre-election polls of selected survey agencies are compared and evaluated here. Further the theses uses an alternative approach to the distribution of seats in the Chamber of Deputies, with a focus on possible impact on the election results both in terms of the different distribution of seats, and in terms of the subsequent formation of possible coalitions. There are also discussed all possible coalitions which were suggested after the elections in 2010.
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An analysis of the municipal elections results
Bartošková, Lucie ; Kalčevová, Jana (advisor) ; Kuncová, Martina (referee)
In 2010 the municipal elections took place in the Czech Republic. In this theses there are applied some of the knowledge from the area of the public choice theory and the game theory to the results of the pre-election surveys and results of the elections. Firstly the methods for allocating seats are applied on data from the surveys and election results. The power indices are calculated for all the proportion of allocation of mandates in order to qualify the bargaining power. The results of elections are analysed and compared with two previous periods and with the pre-election surveys. The bargaining power is confronted according to the indices with the results of post-elections negotiations.
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